Proverbs 7:18
in Proverbs 7Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.
KJV
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
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This verse in Proverbs 7
Commentary
7 notes on this verseWith a provocative movement of a prostitute, with a disrupted gait through delights, with wandering eyes, and with playful darting of her eyelids, she captures the precious souls of young men (for the eye of a prostitute is a snare of a sinner), and with doubtful perception, she accosts anyone passing by in the corner of her house, with charming words, causing the hearts of young men to flutter, restless at home, wandering in the streets, prodigal with kisses, cheap in modesty, rich in attire, painted cheeks.
This site's exposition
I have decked my bed with coverings
on Proverbs 7:16-20
Her speech turns to what the senses enjoy, “colored linen from Egypt” and a bed perfumed “with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon”. Her closing argument is logistics, sold as calculated safety: “my husband is not at home,” and he “will not return till the moon is full”.
This site's exposition
let us take our fill of love till morning
Henry grieves that the name of love is spent on lust, and he calls true love a gift from heaven. Her offer runs only till morning. By verse 23 the cost is his life.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Come, let us be drunk with love, etc. The heretics boast that they are sated with each other with the cups of holy doctrine and joined by the grace of virtues until their deeds are followed by eternal light.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Of lust she means, brutish lust; but it is a pity that the name of love should be thus abused. True love is from heaven; this is from hell. How can those pretend to solace themselves and love one another who are really ruining themselves and one another?
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Come, let us take our fill of love - נרוה דדים nirveh dodim, “Let us revel in the breasts;” and then it is added, “Let us solace ourselves with loves,” נתעלסה באהבים nithallesah boohabim; “let us gratify each other with loves, with the utmost delights.” This does not half express the original; but I forbear.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְכָ֤ה | lekhah | come ! | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| נִרְוֶ֣ה | nirveh | let us take our fill of | H7301 → | 14 times |
| דֹ֭דִים | dodim | love<s> | H1730 → | |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| הַבֹּ֑קֶר | haboker | the morning | H1242 → | |
| נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗ה | nitalesah | let us delight ourselves | H5965 → | |
| בָּאֳהָבִֽים׃ | boohavim | with love<s> | H159 → |
לְכָ֤הcome !
lekhahH1980 →1546 times
נִרְוֶ֣הlet us take our fill of
nirvehH7301 →14 times
דֹ֭דִיםlove<s>
dodimH1730 →
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
הַבֹּ֑קֶרthe morning
habokerH1242 →
נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗הlet us delight ourselves
nitalesahH5965 →
בָּאֳהָבִֽים׃with love<s>
boohavimH159 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ambrose of Milan, On Cain and Abel; Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.